THAT WAS TOTALLY AWESOME YOU'RE AMAZING I think I need to start sending this link out to people after they've done cool stuff. (tags: fun achievement reward) Near Future Laboratory » Blog Archive » Follow Curiosity, Not Careers Interesting...

Common Queries Tree Good to keep track of this - never know when one of these MySQL queries will come in handy. (tags: mysql reference webdev)...

My biggest mistakes « Scott Berkun Found via Mel Starrs' delicious links, this isn't really a "mistakes I've made and how to avoid them" but more of a confession of continued failings. I'm bookmarking it not because I've learnt...

Seth's Blog: Losing Andrew Carnegie Carnegie apparently said, "Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new...

FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: US Manufacturing Is Not Dead According to this analysis, US manufacturing is far from in decline, it's just manufacturing job numbers that are falling due to increased productivity. Would be interesting to see a similar...

gheat - Project Hosting on Google Code A nice solution to do heatmaps on Google maps. (tags: maps visualization python webdev)...

Strong Opinions, Weakly Held - Bob Sutton A lovely approach to life. (tags: philosophy inspiration) Lyons: How Google & Facebook Violate Your Privacy - Newsweek.com A good way of thinking about the increasing enroachment onto our privacy of firms...

This entry is unlikely to be of any interest to anyone who isn't trying to run Ubuntu on the Sony S Series VPCS11V9E laptop. I've had one of said laptops for a week or two now and although I've got...

O'Reilly, the tech book publisher, organises a series of events under the banner of Ignite and a group of us are bringing the format to Liverpool as part of O'Reilly's Global Ignite Week. It'll be a series of talks on...

cityofsound: Emergent Urbanism, or ‘bottom-up planning’ Interesting thoughts on how people might engage better with the planning of their cities, and wondering if there are better ways than just NIMBY-style actions to prevent change. How could people propose more...

Over on the MCQN Ltd. blog I've decided to join the growing number of businesses posting weeknotes, a weekly update on what they've been up to along with glimpses behind the scenes at the day-to-day planning and running of a...

Reading Julian Dobson's recent article Warning: Dementors at large reminded me of a bit of neighbourhood tidying that's happened here in Liverpool. It was probably just done by the owner of the building, rather than the council or as part...

FangleTronics Lots of interesting little projects a guy is making for his and his kids' enjoyment. (tags: electronics blog) Britain's “broken society”: Through a glass darkly | The Economist "Britain has plenty of things to worry about; it would...

I was just going to add this link to my delicious stream, but I wanted to pull just that bit too much in the way of quotes out of it, and so figured a blog post was more suitable. In...